The holiday which celebrates military servicemen is known as Veterans Day or Armistice Day. The holiday was begun shortly after WWI and continues today. ... Veterans Day - November 11th

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HISTORY AND OLD OBSERVANCE: ... Soldiers who survived marched in parades through their hometowns and veteran officers gave speeches. ... 1938 Congress voted Armistice Day a federal public holiday.

November 11: President Wilson proclaims the first Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of...

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A shoe cobbler in Emporia, Kansas named Alvin J. King and Kansas Congressman Ed Rees introduced a bill to Congress to change the name of this observance from Armistice Day to Veteran's Day.

Two years later on Armistice Day, an unknown American World War I soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., in the Tomb of the Unknowns. ... History of Verterans Day

War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen in the Nation's history; ... Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee,